CVE-2018-6343 is a vulnerability in Facebook Proxygen
Published on December 31, 2018
Proxygen fails to validate that a secondary auth manager is set before dereferencing it. That can cause a denial of service issue when parsing a Certificate/CertificateRequest HTTP2 Frame over a fizz (TLS 1.3) transport. This issue affects Proxygen releases starting from v2018.10.29.00 until the fix in v2018.11.19.00.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2018-6343 can be exploited with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a high impact on availability.
Weakness Type
NULL Pointer Dereference
A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit. NULL pointer dereference issues can occur through a number of flaws, including race conditions, and simple programming omissions.
Products Associated with CVE-2018-6343
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Affected Versions
Facebook Proxygen:- Version v2018.11.19.00 is affected.
- Version v2018.10.29.00 and below unspecified is affected.
- Version unspecified and below v2018.10.29.00 is unaffected.
Exploit Probability
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